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It there were not another external disease known, eczema alone would be a sufficient infliction on mankind. It pervades all classes, and descends im partially through generations.. While some are constantly enveloped in it, others have it confined to small patches in the ears, on the scalp, on the breast, on the palms of the hands, on the limbs, etc., but everywhere its distinctive feature Is a email watery blister, which discharges an acrid fluid, causing heat, inflammation, and Intense itching. Ring-worm, tetter, sc&lled head, dandruff, belong to this scaly and itching order of diseases. Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with its mother-of-pearl scale, situated on -reddened base, which bleeds upon the removal of the scale, is to be dreaded and avoided, as of old. Im petigo, barber's itch, erysipelas, and a score of minor disorders make up in part the catalogue of external diseases of the skin. Thus far we have made no allusion to those afflictions which are manifestly impurities of the blood, viz.: swelling of the glands of the throat, ulcers on the neck and limbs, tumors, abscesses, and mercurial poisons, with loss of hair, because the whole list can be comprehended In the one word scrofula. BEAUTY AND PURITY If such be the unhappy condition of one afflicted with slight skin blemishes, what must be the feelings of those in whom torturing humors hare for years run riot, covering the skin with scales and sores and charging the blood with poisonous elements to become a part of the.system until death? It is vain to attempt to por tray such suffering. Death in many cases might be considered a blessing. The blood and fluids seem to be im pregnated with a fiery element which, when discharged through the pores upon the surface of the body, inflames and burns until, In his efforts for relief, the patient tears the akin with his nails, and not until the blood flows d6es sufficient relief come to cause him to desist. Thus do oomplexional defects merge Into torturing disease, and piqued van ity give place to real suffering. A little wart on the nose or cheek grows to the all-devouring lupus, a patch of tetter on the palm of, the hand or on the limbs suddenly envelops the body in its flery embrace, a bruise on the leg expands into a gnawing ulcer, which reaches out Its fangs to the sufferer's heart in every paroxysm of pain, a smallkernel in the neck multiplies into a dozen, which eat away the vitality, great pearl-like scales grow from little rash-like inflammations In such abun dance as to pass credulity and so on may we depict the sufferings to which poor human nature is subject, all of which involve great mental distress because of personal disflguratious. It is in the treatment of torturing, disfiguring humors and affections of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of hair, that the Cuticura remedies have achieved their greatest success. Orig inal in composition, scientifically com pounded, absolutely pure, unchangeable in any climate, always ready, and agree able to the most delicate and sensitive, they present to young and old the most successful curatives of modern times. This will be considered strong language by those acquainted with the cliaractcr and obstinacy of blood and skin humors but It is justified by innumerable suc cesses where all the remedies and meth ods In vogue have failed to cure, and, In many cases, to relieve, even. The Cuticura treatment Is at once agreeable, speedy, economical, and comprehensive. Bathe the affected parts freely with hot water and Cuti cura soap, to cleanse the surface of crests and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard rubbing, and apply Cuticura Ointment Ancient and Modern Ideas on the Subject. Time and Disease the Effacing Agents of Beauty. What Has Science Done to Restore the LHy Socrates called beatrty a short-lived tyranny, Plato a privilege of nature, Theocritus a delightful prejudice, Tjjeopbxastus a silent cheat, Carneades a 'solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious gift of nature, Ovid a favor of the gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of fecom* menilation in the world, and yet none of these distinguished authorities' has left us even a hint of how beauty is .to be perpetuated, or the ravages of age and disease defied. Time soon blends the lily and the rose into the pallor of age, disease dots the fair face with cutaneous disfigurations and crimsons the Roman nose with unsightly flushes, moth, if not rust, corrupts the glory of eyes, teeth, and lips yet beautiful by defacing the complexion, and tills the sensitive soul with agony unspeakable. A AAA A AAA A A AAA A AAA A AAA AAA AAAAAAAA Eomes Correspondence mad Inquiries are given promt attention. and the Rose? I VERY LOW RATES TO I THE NORTHWEST I A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A WW WP WW WW WW WW WW WW WW WW WANTED—OIL MCTTS. h«t«fr ocranty reliable, energetic men to sell on anudmion especially to the Fknnera and Ttyesb- to allay Itching, Irritation, sad inflam mation, and soothe and heal, and, lastly, take Cuticura Resolvent, to cool and cleanse the blood. This treatment af fords instant relief, permits rest and sleep in the severest forms of eczema and other Itching, burning, and scaly humors, and points to a speedy, perma nent, and economical cure of torturing, disfiguring humors, eczemas, rashes, and Inflammations, from infancy to age, when all other remedies and the best physicians fail. The remedies con stituting the Cuticura system will repay an Individual scrutiny of their remark able properties. Cuticura Soap contains In a modified form the medicinal properties of Cuti cura Ointment, the great skin cure and purest and sweetest of emollients, com bined with the most delicate and re freshing of flower odors. It purifies and invigorates the pores of the skin, and imparts activity to the oil giacds and tubes, thus furnishing an outlet for unwholesome matter, which if re tained would cause pimples, black heads, rashes, oily, mothy skin, and other complexlonal dis^gurations, as well as scalp affections and Irritations, falling hair, and baby rashes. Its gen tle and continuous action on the natural lubricators of the skin keeps the latter transparent, soft, flexible, and healthy. Hence its constant use, assisted by an occasional use of Cuticura Ointment, realizes the fairest complexion, the softest, whttest hands, and the most luxuriant, glossy hair within the do main of the most advinced sclentlfio knowledge to supply. Cuticura Ointment Is the most suc cessful external curative for torturing, disfiguring humors of the skin and scalp, including loss of hair, In proof of which a single anointing with It, preceded by a hot bath with Cuticura Soap, and followed in the severer cases by a Aill dose of Cuticura Resolvent, is sufficient to afford immediate relief In the most distressing forms of itching, burning, anil scaly humors, permit rest and sleep, and point to & speedy cure when all other remedies fail. It Is espe cially so in the treatment of Infants and children, cleansing, soothing, and healing the most distressing of infan tile humors, and preserviug, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, and hair. Cuticura Ointment possesses, at the same time, the charm of satisfying the simple wants of the toHet of all ages, in caring for the akin, scalp, hair, and hands far more effectually, agreeably, and economically than the most expensive of toilet emollients, while free from every ingredient of a doubtful or dangerous character. Its One Night Treatment of the Hands," or Single Treatment of the Hair," or use after athletics, cycling, golf, ten nis, riding, sparring, or any sport, each iu connection with the use of Cntlcura Soap, is sufficient evidence of this. Of all remedies for the purification of the blood and circulating fluids, none approaches in specific medical action Cuticura Resolvent. It neutralizes and resolves away (hence ita name) scrota lous, inherited, and other humors in the blood, which give rise to swellings of the glands, pains in the bones, and torturing, disfiguring eruptions of the skin and scalp, with loss of hair. Cuticura Resolvent extends its puri fying Influence by means of the pores to the surface of the skin, allaying irritation, inflammation, Itching, and burning, and soothing and healing. Hence its success in the treatment of distressing humors of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of hair, which fail to be permanently cured by external remedies alone. The grandest testimonial that can be offered Cuticura remedies Is their world-wide sale, due to the personal recommendations of those who hove used them. It is difficult to realize the mighty growth of the business done under this name. From a small begin ning in the simplest form, against prej udice and opposition, against monled hosts, countless rivals, and trade in difference, Cuticura remedies have be come the greatest curatives of their time, and, in fact, of all time, for no where in the history of medicine Is to be found another approaching them In popularity and sale. In every clime and with every people they have met with the same reception. The confines of the earth are the only limits to their growth. They have conquered the world. To the test of popular judgment all things mundane must finally come. The civilized world has rendered its verdict in favor of Cutioura. A A A A A A A A From February 15th to April 30th, 1903, the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL WAY will sell one-way Colonist tickets $ from its eastern terminals—St Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and the Superiors— to nearly all points on its own and con necting lines in Montana, Idaho, Wash nig ton and Oregon. Good land in these states is rapidly being sold and the op- ortunity to get desirable, low-priced is just as rapidly passing. For lomes is rates, details and write at once to A A A A A A A general information 'CHAS. S. FEE, A A A WW1WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWJ den. Pass. & Ticket Agent, ST. PAUL, MINN. Km Washington and Idaho. Delightful Wfl climate. Product!re soil. Choice I II II II wheat, fruit, meadow, timber and I. II II (raxlnir land. Writo for free IM 1J1111II and ehean rate* for Homeseekera. •MlP Rossw-mccsox, Spokane, Waafc USE OF RIGHT HAND. Hart Due to Training, Say Scientific Invcstlgatora, Bat to Pnrelr Natural Dlatiactloa. Prof. Cunningham pointed out how it is evident that as far back as we can trace man he was preferentially right handed. Thus Dr. 11. Lehmann-Xitsche had examined the bones of prehistoric men from southern Bavaria and had found that the clavicle and the long bones of the right upper limb were dis tinctly heavier and more massive than the corresponding bones of the oppo site side. All the evidence at our dis posal goes to show that right-handed ness is due to a transmitted functional preeminence of the left brain, and this functional preeminence was not a hap hazard acquisition which had been picked up during the lifetime of the individual, it rested upon some struc tural foundation which transmitted from parent to offspring. Modern sci ence, then, if we have correctly inter preted Prof. Cunningham's meaning, would seem to show that there is a distinction in nature of the right hand. It is indubitably the one by which most delicate manual actions are per formed, with one marked exception— namely, the fingering in the play of stringed instruments which are played with a bow.—London Lancet. IT TEACHES SHOOTING. Loolca Like, a Complicated Mechan laaa, Bat to Soldiera Ita l«eful aeaa la Apparent. Remarkably curious is a device which will interest military men. It is an apparatus for technical gun practice, and it consists of a gun support, a pointer, a bull's-eye mark, an automatic clamp aud tripping mechanism. The support and pointer have uni versal joint supports, and are so con- APPARATUS FOR GUN PRACTICE. nected with each other that parallel ism~of the pointer is maintained with the deviating line of the gun sight. The bull's-eye mark is located in the line which the pointer occupies when the gun is truly sighted, and there is also an adjustable mirror, .which is used for bringing the images of the pointer and the bull's-eye within the visual range of the instructor. When the trigger is pulled the automatic clamp serves to lock the parts in the proper .positions, and the clamp itself is held in readiness for action by means of setting devices.—Detroit Free Press. THE SIZE OF ALASKA [WING chiefly to the distance of Alaska from the United States and the difficulty of travel in its interior, its size is generally underesti I mated. Direct comparison of maps drawn to scale, as in the accom panying chart, is somewhat surprising. Says George B. Mollister, of the United States geological survey, who wj-ites on this subject in the Popu lar Science Monthly: "When it is said that Alaska has one-fifth the area of the whole United States, one begins to have a more intelligent conception-of its size, for in a general way the average American readily forms a fairly accurate mental picture of the broad size relations of his country. But so great is the ex tent of the United States and so difficult is it to judge accurately of the re lations of geographical measurements, that even this is not a satisfactory comparison. For this reason our practical knowledge would not be much benefited were it stated that the area of Alaska is equal to that of three RELATIVE SIZE OF. ALASKA AND THE UNITED STATES. and one-quarter Californias, or ten Iowas, or 127% Connecticuts. But if it were possible to take the whole territory of Alaska and its adjoining is lands and place them upon the portion of North America occupied by the United States, it would be a simple thing to show exactly what the rela tions of these great possessions to our own country are. Just this, in ef fect, has been done, as the accompanying illustration shows. The chart was prepared by Mr. Alfred H. Brooks, geologist of the United States geo logical survey, in charge of the government w»rk of exploration and geo logical investigation of the territory, who has drawn upon the map of the United States an outline of Alaska. The scale used in both instances is the same, and the result is most interesting." In the map Point Barrow falls on the Canadian border, while Mount St. T?llaa is on the Ohio river. The strip on which Sitka and Juneau lie ex tends to the Atlantic coast at Georgia, while the Nome district is in South Dakota and the Aleutian group reaches to the Pacific at Los Angeles. ROPE-CLIMBING DEVICE. It Coaalota of Clampinv Which Hold a Man Suspended ljr 11U Own Wcl|kt. In our illustration is shown a rather unique device to enable a person to climb a rope and hold himself sus pended by his own weight, the inven-' tion being especially adapted for use in mending standpipes, painting chim neys and other work where it is diffi cult to support a scaffold convenient ly. This apparatus consists-of a pair of hinged members, with footholds at the outer ends and a clamp near (he joint, composed of two semi-circular jaws, which are forced together by the weight of the person whose feet are in the footholds. In the employment of this device but a single rope is CLIMBING A ROPE. needed, the upper end being securely fastened aloft, and the lower end drawn through the clamp until in po* sition for the operator to insert his feet in the stirrups and begin the ascent. By supporting the weight with the hands and spreading the feet aparl slightly the le&s can be drawn up to place the clamp in a new posi tion, when the weight is transferred to the clamp and the hands secure a hold higher up on the rope. By thus alternating the weight between the clamp and the hands the climber ascends quite rapidly and has the ad vantage of being able to rest at any point without any more exertion than would be required to stand* on the ground. Charles E. Ivnop, of De troit, Mich., is the inventor.—Chicago Daily News. Biography of Snotrflake. Under this title Mr. Arthur H. Bell, in Knowledge, describes the life his tory of the aerial frost flower*) of win ter. In order to liuve a fair start in life a snowflakc should be built up on a particle of dust. Then, if it has the good fortune to begin its career at the top of a cloud many miles above the earth, and to pass through many at mospheric strata, differing in their temperature and the amount of moist ure they contain, our snowflake is very likely -to become a notable individual among its kind. In a stratum of warm er air the little flake catches moisture on its tiny spicules, and when it enters a colder stratum below, the moisture is frozen, and so the flake grows. In a thawing air many flakes sometimes cohere, forming disks from an inch to two or three inches across. Latent Form of Preserve. The fruit briek is the latest form of preserve. It is rectangular or disk shaped and done up in oileil tissue pa per. The consistency is that of a small gumdrop, and, being composed kirgely of sugar, the flavor of the fruit is retained* admirably. These bricks will soon be on the market from Cali fornia. Interesting Letters from Catholic institutions. In every conntry of the civilized world the Sisters of Charity are known. Not only do they minis ter to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to their care, but they also minister to their bodily needs. With so many children to take care of and to pvo tect from climate and disease, these wise and prudent sisters have found Peruna a never-failing1 safeguard. THE 8I8TER8 GOOD WORK. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., reads as follows: California—Low Rates. Beginning February 15th, the M., K. ft T. Ry. will sell Colonist Tickets to Cali fornia at very low rates, viz.: St. Louis, 130.00 Kansas City, $25.00. Touirist Car through to San Francisco leavqi St. Louis each Tuesday at 8:32 p. m. Ask any Katy Agent or address James Barker, Gen 1 Pass. Agent, M. K. & T. By., 202 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis. Never be liberal beyond your reputa tion it excites suspicion.—Indianapolis News. SISTERS OF CHARITY RELY ON PE-RU-NA TO FIGHT Catarrh, Coughs, Colds and Grip. SISTER BEATRIX. A letter recently received by Dr. Hartman from Sister Beatrix, 41® W. 80th street, New York, reads as follows: Dr. & B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir:—" I cannot say too much In praise of Peruna. Eight bottles of It cured me of catarrh of the lungs of four years standing, and I would not have been without It for anything. It helped several Slaters of coughs, mod colds and I have yet to find one case of catarrh that It does not cure." Constipation Cured" Those who hare used salts, castor oil, and the many home and manufactured purgatives, know that in such treatment there is no possi bility of a cure from constipation. These remedies are at most physics and do absolutely I no good. In fact they frequently provoke pile* fistula, female disorders and many cases of appendicitis are traceable to their use. Soon the ordinary doses of these physics fail __ I to have any effect There never I nnnn thtt esse of temporary or obstinate constipation that AU druggists aell Mull'a Grape Tonic at so cents a bottle. Bromo-Seltzer Promptly all Headaches Uae a good, penetrating liniment when there's a hurt, bruise, pain in your body or the body of your beast* LI NIM ENT worms its way down through the swollen, __ muscles to the very heart of pain and drives it out. /Iff Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir:—"The young girl who a suffering from uaed the Peruna was laryngitis, and loss of voice. suit of the treatment was most satis factory. She found great relief, mod after farther use of the medicine wm hope to be able to say she Is entirely my sue 4** v-a "wi •4 SISTER BEATRIX. & The Charity. cured. "—Sisters of Tli is young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna for catarrh of the throat, with good re sults as the above letter testifies. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will l»c pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Cohimbas, Ohio. -'4 '•a. A 50 Cent Hat BY MAIL This hat in either style of lent post-paid o» receipt of centi In cash, postal order MEN'S HAT MO. 1. (tamps. Money back It not In soft rough finish. Colorti We refcr to th* Grey Mix and Blk. MU. First National B_«nk of Middle In smooth finish. Coloni Hen's ^lack. Drown and Steel. SS^hattT^ MIDDLBTOWN HAT CO.t SS MILL ST.. MIDDICTOWN. N. V. A. N. K.-O was a Mull's Grape Tonic would not crrre. Flrrt, Mali's Grape Tonle la nnllke any I other treatment for constipation. It Is the greatest and moat positive laxative known. But that Isn't what cures. It Is the tonle properties of the grape and other fruits that strengthens the worn-oat muscles of the In testinal tract. Mull's Grape Tonle Imllds flesh makes 1 strength and creates rich, red blood. Mull's Grape Tenle Is the finest thing ever known for constipation. It Is guar anteed to cure 7011. Large sample bottle sent free to any address on receipt of toeents for postage hy Lightning I Medicine Co., Bock Island, III. Bend your druggist's name., :'l 1956 M1* vwtfa! aii